• Unit 4

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    Unit 4, Week 1: "Animal Features?"

    • Essential Question: How do animals' bodies help them?
    • Comprehension Focus: Ask and Answer Questions; Plot: Sequence
    • Word Work: Long a: a, ai, ay; ABC Order
    • Grammar: Was and Were
    • Spelling Words:
      • mail
      • rain
      • chain
      • play
      • way
      • day
      • took
      • hood
      • our
      • carry
    • High Frequency Words:
      • about
      • animal
      • carry
      • eight
      • give
      • our

     

    Unit 4, Week 2: "Animals Together"

    • Essential Question: How do animals help each other?
    • Comprehension Focus: Ask and Answer Questions; Main Idea and Key Details
    • Word Work: Long e: e, ee, ea; Prefixes re/un/pre
    • Grammar: Has and Have
    • Spelling Words:
      • me
      • we
      • keep
      • feed
      • beak
      • seat
      • play
      • rain
      • because
      • other
    • High Frequency Words:
      • because
      • blue
      • into
      • or
      • other
      • small

     

    Unit 4, Week 3: "In the Wild"

    • Essential Question: How do animals survive in nature?
    • Comprehension Focus:  Ask and Answer Questions; Main Idea and Key Details
    • Word Work: Long o: o, oa, ow, oe; Open Sylables
    • Grammar: Go and Do
    • Spelling Words:
      • low
      • no
      • boat
      • oat
      • row
      • toe
      • we
      • keep
      • over
      • more
    • High Frequency Words:
      • find
      • food
      • more
      • over
      • start
      • warm

     

    Unit 4, Week 4: "Insects"

    • Essential Question: What insects do you know about?
    • Comprehension Focus: Visualize, Point of View
    • Word Work: Long i: i, y, igh, ie; Inflectional endings -ed, -ing
    • Grammar: See and Saw
    • Spelling Words:
      • find
      • night
      • by
      • kind
      • right
      • pie
      • boat
      • no
      • caught
      • listen
    • High Frequency Words:
      • caught
      • flew
      • know
      • laugh
      • listen
      • were

     

     Unit 4, Week 5: "Working with Animals"

    • Essential Question: How do people work with animals?
    • Comprehension Focus: Visualize, Sequence
    • Word Work: Long e: y, ey; Compound Words
    • Grammar: Adverbs that tell when
    • Spelling Words:
      • key
      • bumpy
      • puppy
      • funny
      • penny
      • sandy
      • my
      • night
      • wash
      • would
    • High Frequency Words:
      • found
      • hard
      • near
      • woman
      • would
      • write

     

     Unit 4, Week 6: "Unit 4 Review"

    • Essential Question: What we are learning!
    • Please look back to the previous weeks for skills
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